Love these photos from Coachella of random cult celebrities awkwardly meeting each other

And then there’s this group photo from the Yo Gabba Gabba set featuring the original team, a couple Aquabats, Domo, a Care Bear, the Duo Lingo Owl, Weird Al, Flavor Flav, Portugal the Man, Paul Williams, Bozo the Clown, a few people that are famous but I don’t know, HR Pufnstuf, and (not pictured but appearing on stage) the bear from Rockafire Explosion

Apparently the legendarily so-bad-it’s-good “the Man Who Saved the World”, aka, “Turkish Star Wars”, is available in its entirety with English subtitles for free on YouTube

I haven’t watched it yet so if you start watching I hope it’s true

Just watched it! It’s nigh incomprehensible and has nothing to do with Star Wars beyond some stolen space battle footage, and really it’s just a Turkish martial arts movie with sci fi framing.

Just as a fun exercise I’m going to attempt to summarize the plot. You see there’s this evil wizard that wants to destroy the Earth but ever since some pieces of the Earth got blown off by a nuclear war it’s been encapsulated in an impenetrable shield made of human brain molecules (represented by the Death Star), so the wizard needs to capture a human to steal his brain to unlock the shield. The only humans that stray outside are fighter pilots (in Tie Fighters), and the wizard manages to shoot a couple down onto a planet (which turns out to be completely intact parts of the Middle East, which got blown off the Earth as mentioned earlier). The pilots are too good at kung fu to be captured by his skeleton minions, his bootleg Cylons, or some pink furry monster guys that look like Yo Gabba Gabba characters, but then one of them gets a girlfriend who is promptly kidnapped. Then one of pilots gets converted to Islam, steals some ancient artifacts (a golden brain and the worst looking magic sword you ever saw), melts them down into some magic gloves and super jump boots, and kills every bad guy. His friend exploded so now the girl is his girlfriend, and he flies back to Earth on the Millennium Falcon, which he apparently got at some point.

Cartoon Heroes Paper Cut-Outs

The Mask

Based on the 1994 Jim Carey film, The Mask: The Animated Series continues the adventures of bank clerk Stanley Ipkiss who is able to use an ancient and magical  mask to gain superpowers.  As The Mask, Ipkiss fights crime in Edge City.  A number of the episodes in the series were written by John Arcudi who helped to develop the original Mask comic book series for Dark Horse Comics.   

Mask: The Animated Series debuted in August of 1995 and ran for three seasons.  Actor Rob Paulsen provided the voice for both Stanley Ipkiss and his masked alter ego.    

Ahhhhhhh I remember this show!

The villain who was an evil head with spider legs creeped me out as a kiddo O_O

Praetorius!

Evil Genius who decided to separate his head and body to maximize his evil efficiency, and was after Stanley's mask for additional evil purposes.

Naturally, he was voiced by Tim Curry.

The show also crossed over with the concurrently running Ace Ventura Pet Detective animated series, which had a wildly different animation style, and the results were just as horrifying as you might imagine.

Ah, another in a long line of cartoons based on adult properties.

RAMBO!

YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!

(Laser gun battle ensues)

I can do you one better:

The Toxic Avengers was a Horror comedy, Toxie was a horror movie slasher played as a hero.

I was actually introduced to the series through this cartoon.

The fact that a Troma film got not only a saturday morning kids cartoon but even a toyline to go along with it is just

One of the most amazingly insane things to happen in our strange strange world :D

I feel like the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon is a half step below Toxic Crusaders, but still a weird one!

Oh my GOD :D

I forgot this was a thing somehow! XD

Oh yeah! It was named for the first movie but based mostly on the second movie, Return of the Killer Tomatoes, and featuring John "Gomez Addams" Astin reprising his role as the main villain from that movie (albeit with a different name — Professor Mortimer Gangreen in the movies, Dr. Putrid T. Gangreen in the cartoon).

Wilbur (hero of the first film), Chad (hero of the second film), Tara (a half-human half-tomato mutant in the form of a teenage girl), and F.T. (the Fuzzy Tomato, who everyone thinks is a weird dog) also all returned, but Chad is changed from an older teenager to a preteen kid (with Tara now acting as his ditzy older sister rather than a sex-crazed love interest).

Almost a pure comedy, it even featured a woman who acted as a censor, who would show up in almost every episode whenever things started getting too violent (or otherwise not-kid-friendly).

There were two more Killer Tomatoes movies released after this cartoon (Killer Tomatoes Strike Back and Killer Tomatoes Eat France), and Astin played Gangreen in both of them, too. John Astin reportedly loved the character so much that he came back as soon as he was asked.

I wish the world was still at this level of insane <3

This was good shit :D

Can you imagine what we'd have if it was?

There'd be a John Wick cartoon where the dog can talk and The High Table has a quirky miniboss squad who are basically the Mandarin's goons from the 90's Iron Man cartoon or the fucking Negaverse from the american dub of Sailor Moon

There'd be a M-Three-Gan series where she's a fuckin transformer and turns into wacky things to solve the plot while discovering the meaning of friendship

There would 100% be a Hunger Games cartoon where Katniss is Wandering the Earth getting into adventures from District to District with her grumpy mentor Haymitch, learning lessons along the way

We have been ROBBED of this madness

We've been robbed of Arctic Action John Wick

We've been robbed of a toyline where his dog has Animal Allies who all have some kind of power armor and lasers

This timeline is the bad place I'm sad now ;-;

If the 80s/90s kidvid environment had never left things would have gone way further than that, too.

Because there weren't just cartoons based on adult properties, but ones based on people.

Tho not entirely limited to that era:

So you were also robbed a cartoon where Jack Black and his fictional teen cousins solve crimes as he coaches their acting troupe and another where Lady Gaga has supernatural powers she uses to defend earth from Shadowmaster and his army of Shadow-Beasts.

The downside is that there would be a nonzero number of series based on influencers and youtubers, and thus there'd be discourse around "No, I'm not a fan of Jake Paul the person, but the almost entirely unrelated cartoon character voiced by Gregory Cipes" and the like.

The newest one I’m aware of was Class of 3000, a Cartoon Network show about Andre 3000 becoming a teacher and taking his class on adventures

But personally I think the mostly likely candidate for Adult Movies Turned Into Kids Shows is Fast & Furious. It’s so close to toyetic already, just give one of them a car that can fly and another with a big drill and have them protect the world from an evil robot alien car that wants to collect the Speed Gems

Also nobody mentioned the Robocop cartoon. It’s not as extreme as some of the others but it’s there

AAAHHH found a Jack Chick tract in the wild!!! I used to collect these babies like Pokémon cards until my mom found them and went "What the fuck is this" and threw them all out. Most of the hippy dippy liberal churches round here rightfully don't fuck with these so it's such a treat finding these

My favorite one was one where I swear to God some kid like, points at Stewie Griffin and goes "That guy is gay" or whatever. I had not seen Family Guy so I was always so curious as to why the art style had so abruptly changed. What a stupid fucking series of cartoons <- read with a fond tone

Here’s that panel:

When I worked at a public library in a conservative county we would find them tucked into books on the shelves, especially anything about the occult, Islam, or LGBT+ stuff. Never did find out who was doing it.

They’re still under copyright so there’s no digital archive to freely dig through, although some of them are available online through Chick.com, including the infamous “Dark Dungeons” about how D&D lures children into witchcraft and then baits them into suicide when their characters die

I actually didn’t know there were two very different movies called “Crash”

Technically there’s like six or seven but these were the two I was confusing

Steve Purcell (Pencil) & Gerry Talaoc (Inker), ''Animax'', #1, Dec. 1986

MAN I wish this franchise had taken off. Apparently the surviving human population lives in a city called Peoplopolis

I keep getting YouTube ads for some conservative shit helping men break their porn addiction by paying to get televangelized at, but either due to filters or squeamishness they keep calling it “p-word”. The dudes keep going on about how much their love of p-word used to rule their lives and they just couldn’t go a day without p-word. I let the five minute ad play almost all the way through entirely because I was giggling about pretending they meant “penis”

I joke but like. Genuinely concerning in the current culture how multiple sites (Tumblr included) have been showing me ads for Christianity as a concept, but these guys especially. Pay to join + convincing you all your problems are due to feeling guilty about one thing + they’ll help you solve it if you pay them some more + members voluntarily allow other members to monitor their behaviors and report them for violations = very cult, and goddam, if you’re trying not to sound like a cult, maybe call it something besides “Unchained Leader”. That is the cultiest name I’ve ever heard for anything.

"It is written in the Book of Good & Evil, that in a time long ago, all was peace and harmony. Paradise on Earth. Then one day, the universe shifted. All was dark, and for those born on that day, their evil destiny will be sealed! Now they have united to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting world, and forevermore will be known as . . . WARRIORS!”

I've been watching this show all week and just loving it. There were several "American Gladiators" clones back in the '90s (I particularly dug "Rollergames"), 1992's "Knights & Warriors" one of the most obscure, feeling like it might just be a parody staged at Medieval Times. I regret that I completely missed it the first time around airing in syndication.

As the show proudly declares, it's medieval combat with a modern "Running Man"-style spin, and if you're an '80s Fantasy fan like I am, this is everything that you could hope for. It even opens with an Arthurian-themed legend of fallen former knights-turned-berserker/ruffians that's worthy of a video game or Saturday Morning Cartoon. Challenges involve catapults, crossbows, tug o' war, and roller joust.

Choose your favorite studded combatant among the ranks of Chaos, Princess Malice, Knightmare, Steel Maiden, Lady Battleaxe, Pyro, and Venom, my pick being Plague, who's a crossbreed of Lex Luthor and Ming The Merciless.

It's worth noting that the armor-clad actor who essays the regal Lord of Law, Order, Rules, and Discipline is Bernard Erhard, who appropriately enough lent his voice to the fantastic (and unjustly overlooked) Science Fiction/Fantasy animated series "Visionaries" about battling knights in magical holographic armor, as well as starring in the 1983 Barbarian epic "Deathstalker" as the evil wizard who stages a fabulously gory gladiator tournament. Even the castle set facade looks like the ones used in the Argentinian-lensed Sword & Sorcery movies produced by Roger Corman back in the '80s. In a better timeline, this ran for seven seasons, the tie-in action figures today gracing many the shelves.